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SUBMITTER: Andrade-Pacheco R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7331748 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20200702 1
The identification of disease hotspots is an increasingly important public health problem. While geospatial modeling offers an opportunity to predict the locations of hotspots using suitable environmental and climatological data, little attention has been paid to optimizing the design of surveys used to inform such models. Here we introduce an adaptive sampling scheme optimized to identify hotspot locations where prevalence exceeds a relevant threshold. Our approach incorporates ideas from Bayes ...[more]